Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Outgoing Reporter editor-at-large Arthur Jones, finishing his self-indulgent, four-installment written homage to Edward Everett Hale, goes out on a high note:
It takes about 60 years for a socio-ideological cycle to wind down, and we are only 27 years into the conservative-fundamentalist revival that began with the rise to power -- all in a four-year period -- of John Paul II, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and the Ayatollah Khomeini.
What insight.
What wit.
What a turd.
A middle-aged husband, father, bibliophile and history enthusiast commenting to no one in particular.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
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